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He arrives at the house to install a damp course.

As time rolls on the surface of the ground also becomes elevated, and this damp course is soon lost to sight.

A damp course should disconnect the whole of the foundations from the superstructure.

You see, I think our next priority must be that bit out there, where we, where we've got no damp course..

That such a monument should now require a damp course is a suitably bizarre commentary on human folly.

Often a damp course is placed at the level of the water table to prevent upward penetration of ground water.

She remembered now that her aunt had always insisted on a small fire even in summer, and that she had often expressed concern about the building's damp course too.

Ecologically sound materials, such as natural fibres for fabrics, damp courses that breathe with the building and plant-based paints are increasingly in demand, even if they add to the cost.

While she was here she would have to get a builder in to check over the cottage and put it to rights; put in a new damp course and renew the roof.

If the dwelling was without some necessary attribute such as a damp course or a roof, then it would be unfit for habitation, even though the problems resulting from the lack of the attribute had not then become apparent.

Sorry, correct me if i,m wrong but i understood this to be a forum for people looking for travel advice, not people who are looking to buy properties that have no fkcin damp course !!!!

These spaces are normally ventilated by means of airbricks set in outside walls below the level of the damp course, but these can easily become blocked, cutting off the air flow beneath the floor and allowing rot to develop.

Over the course of the series, Liz develops a relationship with Tom, a builder, who arrives to install a damp course in the kitchen and then is employed to do further jobs, including converting the garage into another bedroom for Georgia.

The author, Ralph Burkinshaw, has developed his own test method which he has published under the title, "The rising damp tests of Camberwell Pier: Potential height of moisture rise in brickwork and the effectiveness of a modern chemical injection cream damp coursing application."

On completion of timber treatment or chemical damp coursing the contractor will normally issue a long-term guarantee, but the number of unqualified contractors offering these guarantees for timber treatment and dampcoursing has increased rapidly and this section of the building industry is high on the list of Company failures.

By 1914, Claridge's Patent Asphalte Company had many contracts in hand, including 70,000 feet of asphalte roofing at HM Stationary Office; damp courses, floors and roofs at British American Tobacco Company's warehouse and W.H. Smith & Sons new printing works.